[…]it is now illegal to sell the R4 in Japan. Nintendo, Square Enix and Capcom all released statements celebrating that fact, and reminding everyone that they’ll continue to pursue action against 54 other companies that manufacture similar devices.
This is futile.
A video featuring the first ten minutes of Yakuza 3, for the PlayStation 3.
I’m not much for shooters, but the Western steampunk setting is something I’m interested in.
If you live in Wisconsin, that Xbox 360 DLC you’ve got your eye on is about to get 5% pricier. Ditto for that PC game you’re considering downloading from Steam.
The Spectator reports that Gov. Jim Doyle has signed into law a measure that will impose a 5% sales tax on digital goods. In addition to game content, things such as music, movies, digital books and ringtones will be affected.
Sucks for Wisconsin.
It was good times around the Capcom offices when they heard that UBS AG had purchased 3 trillion yen ($31 billion) in the publisher’s stock. Shame it didn’t last very long.
That’s because, according to the Capcom-Unity blog, it was all a mistake. It turns out that the bond trader in question only meant to buy $306,000 in stocks, which is cause for considerably less celebration.
Owned.
[…]if you were to look at different parts where you are being attacked by lots of different enemies, there are a number of different horror movies. One is Squirm. It is a movie where worms kind of attack people. You can see how it is an inspiration for different imagery that you see in the game.
Oh, god. Squirm was awful.
While Ys is probably the best-known series to emerge from the enigmatic halls of developer Nihom Falcom, it’s not actually their biggest — nor their most convoluted. No, that honor belongs to the Dragon Slayer series, a loosely-connected assemblage of RPGs and RPG-tinged games that has spanned quite nearly the company’s entire history in some form or another.
